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Phil Masters · 07-09-2016, 01:01 AM

As the player of the Hermetic Existentialist in John's game... That's partly a matter of taking that character to the limit, but it's also about playing a long game in the Cabalistic quest for apotheosis. Once he has a working synthesis, he's going to publish - on multiple timelines. And then, he reckons he'll have a unique place in the human collective unconscious. He's going for a kind of godhood, but being worshipped would be tacky when you can be revered (by a small but select audience).

The fact that Philosophy (Hermeticism) and Philosophy (Existentialism) mostly illustrate that it's possible to mean two completely, fundamentally different things by the word "Philosophy" just makes this interesting to him.

07-09-2016, 01:01 AM	#3
Phil Masters Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: U.K.	Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Philosophy As the player of the Hermetic Existentialist in John's game... That's partly a matter of taking that character to the limit, but it's also about playing a long game in the Cabalistic quest for apotheosis. Once he has a working synthesis, he's going to publish - on multiple timelines. And then, he reckons he'll have a unique place in the human collective unconscious. He's going for a kind of godhood, but being worshipped would be tacky when you can be revered (by a small but select audience). The fact that Philosophy (Hermeticism) and Philosophy (Existentialism) mostly illustrate that it's possible to mean two completely, fundamentally different things by the word "Philosophy" just makes this interesting to him. __________________ -- Phil Masters My Home Page. My Self-Publications: On Warehouse 23 and On DriveThruRPG.